Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Saint Matthew's Presbyterian Church
Wallace, Cumberland, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1828
- Decade built
- 1820-1829
- Architect/designer
- Scottish, Gaelic
- Notice of registration date
- 21 March 1995
- Civic address
- 3863 Highway 307
- Community
- Wallace
- County
- Cumberland
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.81262, -63.47330
- File number
- Prov_file_190
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Pictou Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Counties of Queens and Kings, Prince Edward Island (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Pictou, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its historical association with the Church of Scotland tradition in Nova Scotia, and because it is the oldest remaining church of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in the Province.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Saint Matthew's Presbyterian Church include:
- one-storey wooden construction;
- gable roof;
- heavy pediment in the front elevation;
- bell tower located in the centre of front elevation;
- entrance porch;
- small rondel in the bell tower;
- pointed arch windows on either side of tower;
- four pointed arch windows within each side elevation;
- small Palladian window, with the centre panel pointed, in rear elevation;
- cemetery with a variety of headstones surrounding church building on three sides.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.